iPhone 3.0's Parental Controls to Loosen App Store Restrictions?

[MacRumors]

In the wake of Trent Reznor's vocal objection to Apple's App Store content-based rejection policies, it seems that the iPhone 3.0 update may provide the solution.

iLounge reports that Makayama's Newspaper(s) [App Store, $0.99] application was originally rejected due to inappropriate online-content (images of topless women) from the UK's The Sun tabloid. Apple informed the developer that Parental Controls have been announced for iPhone 3.0 and that it "would be appropriate to resubmit your application for review once this feature is available."

This suggests that many of the "offensive content" reasons for App rejections may go away once 3.0 is available. For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.

Article Link: iPhone 3.0's Parental Controls to Loosen App Store Restrictions?

 

[kolax]

Finally.. After all, the whole issue is "what if a child sees this..". Better Parental Controls should have been implemented when the App Store was introduced.

Surely when they had in-depth discussions about the App Store, someone must have foreseen that explicit content should be addressed. Or maybe they did, and the best they could come up with at the time was, "reject it".

Shall we expect a rush of new app's come iPhone 3.0 then...?

 

[P-Worm]

I think this is an excellent solution to the problem of allowing for more content while still giving parents easier control over the content their children view. I guess the question now is, how far will developers be able to go now? Will the app store allow 'adult' apps?

P-Worm

 

[JonHimself]

Now I just hope people don't take "in the wake of" to mean "as a result of"... logical evolution of the app store though. Everyone is up in arms about something that's really only a year old (give or take?). Eventually Apple will work it all out.. hopefully.

 

[MatthewCobb]

[QUOTE/] For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application. [/QUOTE]
S/he should do us all a favour and remove the offending newspaper from the whole planet, period...

 

[bbplayer5]

Why the heck is anyone buying their kid an iphone or ipod touch? Make the kid get a job at 16 then buy their own!

 

[CrackedButter]

I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.

 

[Willis]

I'm not a buyer of the Sun or any tabloid paper in the UK... but I think it would only be a matter of time until Apple gave in for content such as this. End of the day, parental controls are there for a reason.

 

[Eyedn]

For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.
S/he should do us all a favour and remove the offending newspaper from the whole planet, period...

Amen!.

Im not even sure how "The Sun" because eligible for the title Newspaper.

 

[megfilmworks]

Why the heck is anyone buying their kid an iphone or ipod touch? Make the kid get a job at 16 then buy their own!

My girls both worked from the age of 14 and bought their own.
If your teenager can't afford $199 on an iPhone, then as a parent you'd better demand they have a part-time job.
All kids should have part time jobs.
it makes for a more successful life.

 

[themoonisdown09]

I really don't understand why this wasn't added from the very beginning. My guess is that they didn't realize the App Store would get so many applications in it so quickly. Oh well, at least now it will be there.

 

[MikhailT]

I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.

I don't either but its still a society taboo here. Remember in this society in USA, it is extremely diverse. Muslims and Jews do not accept nudity anywhere and most parents grow up with the ideals of those past generation when the society norms where that nudity is not accepted and they are passing that onto their children. Even in this society, nudity and profanity is not allowed on public televsion at all, "mature content" is accepted somewhat after 11PM but still no nudity and profanity.

Beside the internet has enough boobies for all of us.

 

[W1LLk]

Awesome, maybe now Trent can stop crying.

 

[JonHimself]

Awesome, maybe now Trent can stop crying.

He's not crying, he's an artist that is trying to ... wait wrong thread...

 

[Disturbedmaggot]

All kids should have part time jobs.
it makes for a more successful life.

Amen to that.

I've been working since since I was 15. It builds good work ethic and show responsibility.

I also really hope this well loosen up the app store for more apps that were "potentially offensive".

 

[DS Flyer]

lol

I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.

Agreed.

There should be parent control options on these types of products. It shouldn't take this long to develop/decide and implement these solutions. ssooo slloooowww. Get with the times

 

[MikhailT]

I just hope Apple will enable the Mature Content filter by default so that adults can actually disable it themselves and download all the mature apps they want.

Where's my iboobies?

 

[electronboy]

The iPhone/iPod Touch application review process is--and should be--independent of iPhone OS releases and must be addressed immediately.

Any further delay by Apple to bring clarity and consistency to the application approval process will negatively impact both developers and iPhone owners.

 

[manu chao]

Does MobileSafari has parental controls? If not, it is pretty pointless in not accepting an app that shows the content of The Sun while going to the Sun's website is unrestricted.

 

[Cleve]

App parental control screen

From http://9to5mac.com/itunes-parental-controls-3

 

[BVGuitarPlayer]

I have a better solution.

How about we not give kids f*cking expensive communication technology. I'm 22 now, I grew up entertained with a black and white game boy, and nintendo 8bit.

I never, ever had any problems that my parents would consider objectionable relating to GB or NES.

Let's stop buying kids stuff with M, R or sometimes PG ratings, and stop making everyone else pay for you're unwillingness to raise your children the right way, or at least find a better way.

 

[TwinCities Dan]

Why the heck is anyone buying their kid an iphone or ipod touch? Make the kid get a job at 16 then buy their own!

How'd you get way up there on that high horse?

I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.

Amen...

 

[Willis]

I don't either but its still a society taboo here. Remember in this society in USA, it is extremely diverse. Muslims and Jews do not accept nudity anywhere and most parents grow up with the ideals of those past generation when the society norms where that nudity is not accepted and they are passing that onto their children. Even in this society, nudity and profanity is not allowed on public televsion at all, "mature content" is accepted somewhat after 11PM but still no nudity and profanity.

Beside the internet has enough boobies for all of us.

last time I checked, the UK has Muslims and Jews too

It's just the british are alot more open about it

 

[Beric]

Would this include parental controls available for the Safari browser?

 

[marksman]

I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.

Breasts bad, killing thousands of people a day in code games good.